Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 17:40:19 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Cc: michaelv@headcandy.com, Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More on VM, swap leaks Message-ID: <199606062240.RAA03526@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199606060222.CAA11787@jraynard.demon.co.uk> from "James Raynard" at Jun 6, 96 02:22:21 am
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> > > > Now, in addition to this, I believe emacs installs by default with the > > sticky bit set, which means it will try to keep swap pages allocated > > for it, even when it isn't running. > > It does install with the sticky bit set, but I thought that modern > Unices ignored it as they try to keep everything in swap for as long > as possible. > > Someone mailed me and said that unsetting the sticky bit solved the > problem for them. I tried it and it didn't help at all. 8-( > The VM system totally ignores the sticky bit for executables. > > I agree. Let's see what the latest batch of VM changes will > bring. Time to do a 'make world', I think. > Even if things start magically working, I am still concerned about processes crashing the system the way that they do. Part of me wants the bugs to "just go away", but my rational side says that they wont... John
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